I get what your saying, and it's true that having trained as a man, her experience of it and ability etc will have been very different for someone born as a female going through it, and I can see the argument for it being more impressive and deserving of acknowledgement for someone born as a female. However, none of that is hidden from the story so what is the alternative to the way it has been put across? You suggest that perhaps she should be lauded as a trans-woman (and not be referred to as a woman?), but if she
is a woman, then there is nothing incorrect in how it's been reported. Should transgender women
have to be prefixed with 'trans' every time they are mentioned? Personally I don't think they should have to be. She is technically the first woman on the front line, and nothing in the story is hiding her past or that she was a man when she went through training, so even though they refer to her as a woman, they also refer to her as a transsexual, and everything about her past has been made clear, so I don't see the story as being irresponsible in any way. It's mentioned numerous times as well as being in the headline that this story is about a transsexual. So what is being distorted, the story is correct?
If the issue is that celebrating this woman is taking away from women's rights and achievements, I don't see that either to be honest. When the first woman who was born as a female biologically makes it to the front line, it will be just as much of an achievement for her. The story that gets published about her might be slightly different had this not happened, but that's just a reflection of the fact society recognises trans-women as women, it's not taking anything away from anyone and both stories and successes will be able to coexist. This just happens to be something that has come before that, and should this story not be reported because it's potentially stealing someone else's thunder? Would that not be diminishing to the rights and achievements of transgender people?
(I'm just going off the guardian link and the OP, I'm not sure and don't care how The Sun are reporting it lol
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